KICKSTARTER TO BRING VIDEO GAMES: THE MOVIE TO THE SILVER
SCREEN

(DALLAS, TX) May 14, 2013 –
Mediajuice Studios announced today that it has
launched a Kickstarter campaign to finalize its indie documentary
film,
Video Games: The Movie (http://kck.st/10F2eCG). Mediajuice Studios, which
has created scores of trailers and live-action commercials for the
world’s top video game brands, recently concluded a
year’s worth of on-camera interviews with many video game
icons and celebrities for
Video Games: The Movie, and is now raising funds to complete post-production
before releasing the film theatrically.

Video Games: The Movie is a documentary that hopes to entertain and educate
people about the rich history, unique culture and exciting future
of the video game industry through incisive interviews with the
people who helped shaped the interactive entertainment industry,
including Nolan Bushnell (founder of ATARI), Randy Pitchford, Cliff
Bleszinski, and many others. Also included are some of geek and
gamer culture’s leading celebrity voices such as Wil Wheaton,
Chris Hardwick and Alison Haislip.

Directed by Jeremy Snead,
Video Games: The Movie will tackle many of today’s hot button topics,
including the questionable correlation between video games and
violence, the exploration and elevation of video games as an art
form, next-generation and future-generation gaming and the negative
stereotypes that continue to plague the industry despite its
popularity and commercial success.

“We have spent the past year gathering footage, speaking
with industry founders, influencers, and pundits to get their take
on what we’ve collectively created as an industry and where
we’re headed. We’ve amassed an amazing library of
footage that we think will help bring the true story of the video
game industry into clear focus. We’re now headed into
post-production and are looking to the community to get us to the
finish line. We are on Kickstarter to generate enough funding to
create the type of film the video game industry deserves,”
said Jeremy Snead, director of
Video Games: The Movie and president of Mediajuice Studios.

Mediajuice will use Kickstarter to fund post-production on the
film, which includes editing, a musical score, voice over
narration, the acquisition of licensed archival clips from as early
the 1960s through the late 1990s, motion graphics, and the need to
gain a handful of key interviews that are needed to cover the next
generation of consoles as well as round out and better present the
video game industry to viewers.

“I hope that once we’re done,
Video Games: The Movie will stand as a benchmark for all other movies about the
games industry; and that it will help dispel some of the nagging
falsehoods that ignorantly plague game makers and players, and keep
them from receiving mainstream acceptance like other art forms such
as films, music and books. In the end, our hope is that this film
will help further legitimize the industry and the culture to those
who continue to disregard it without really spending time to learn
about it,” said Snead.

ABOUT THE FILM

Video Games: The Movie is a feature-length documentary, which aims to tell the
untold story of video games by giving a past, present and future
look into how games are made, marketed and consumed, and how in
turn, that has created a culture unlike any other. Where is the
industry and the growing audience of gamers headed? The entire
story will be told through the eyes of game developers, publishers,
and consumers.

Video Games: The Movie is not just another film about the games industry - it
will attempt something much more ambitious: the question of what it
means to be a gamer, a game maker and where “video games"
will be in 10, 20, even 100 years from now.
Video Games: The Movie will showcase the evolution of industry via four
sections: The History, The Culture, The Creation and The Future
through insightful interviews. Participants include Rob Pardo (CCO,
Blizzard Entertainment), Mark Rein (vice president, Epic Games),
Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War, Unreal Tournament), Nolan Bushnell
(founder of ATARI), Brian Fargo (founder, Interplay & InXile),
David Perry (co-founder, GAIKAI), Randy Pitchford (president,
Gearbox), Palmer Luckey (creator of the Oculus Rift), Kudo Tsunoda
(Corp. VP, Microsoft Game Studios) as well as some of geek &
gamer culture’s leading celebrities such as Wil Wheaton,
Chris Hardwick, Max Landis and Alison Haislip.

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About Mediajuice Studios

Mediajuice Studios is a full service, multi-media agency and
production studio that provides turnkey video, web, print and media
services.

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